Translator’s Note: I include in this Note the official “English” news article released by the CPC which can be read in conjunction with the translated version i have rendered below:

‘China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based telecom fraud syndicate

2026-01-29 Ecns.cn Editor：Mo Honge

(ECNS) — China has executed 11 members of a Myanmar-based telecom fraud criminal syndicate that committed multiple violent crimes, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) said on Thursday.

The criminal activities of the group involved more than 10 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars) in illicit funds. The syndicate also committed violent crimes such as intentional homicide, intentional injury, and illegal detention against fraud-related personnel, resulting in the deaths of 14 Chinese citizens.

On Sept. 29, 2025, the Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou City in east China’s Zhejiang Province sentenced Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen and nine others to death for their crimes. The defendants later appealed the verdict.

After a second-instance trial, the Zhejiang Provincial High People’s Court rejected their appeals on Nov. 25, 2025, upheld the original judgment and submitted the case to the SPC for review and approval.

Upon review, the SPC confirmed that since 2015, the criminal syndicate led by Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen had established multiple compounds in Kokang, northern Myanmar, engaging in telecom fraud and illegal gambling under armed protection.

The SPC ruled that the crimes were extremely serious, with particularly grave circumstances and consequences. The court found that the facts were clear, the evidence sufficient, the convictions accurate and the sentencing appropriate, and approved the death sentences in accordance with the law.

Following the approval, the Wenzhou court carried out the executions in accordance with legal procedures. The criminals’ close relatives were allowed to meet them prior to execution. (By Evelyn)’

The US executes its citizens all the time and it barely gets reported in the UK (or the EU) – where the death penality is abolished. ACW (30.1.2026)

Shanghai Observor – 29.1.2026

Today (January 29th 2026), 11 criminals of the Ming family criminal group, with Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen and others as the principal elements, were executed. This criminal group, which has long been entrenched in the Kokang in northern Myanmar and relied on the armed force to commit telecommunications network fraud against Chinese citizens, taking the lives of Chinese people, and destroying their families. What are the numerous crimes committed by the Ming family criminal group, and how did they fall into the legal net? Let’s review together.

In the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, the “four major families”, including the Ming family, control the local profiteering industries such as casinos, minerals, and real estate, as well as black and grey markets, whilst committing crimes against their fellow countrymen. Since the end of 2015, however, the Ming family has gradually relied on gambling and wire fraud business to achieve wealth. Under the leadership of the head of the family, Ming Xuechang, it gradually developed into a Ming family criminal group with its son Ming Guoping, daughter Ming Julan, and granddaughter Ming Zhenzhen – as its main members.

By soliciting wire fraud “sponsors”, that is, the heads of wire fraud gangs, the Ming family criminal group successively set up a number of industrialized and collectivized gambling and fraud parks such as Crouching Tiger Villa, Louis International, and Yuxiang International Group, and cooperated to win over a group of large and small wire fraud “sponsors”. In order to completely eradicate the criminal soil of the four major families in northern Myanmar that infringe on Chinese citizens, after several rounds of talks and consultations between China and Myanmar, starting from July 2023, the Ministry of Public Security deployed a special operation to crack down on telecommunications network fraud crimes involving Chinese citizens in northern Myanmar.

During this period, in order to protect the wire fraud den, the Ming family criminal group continued to control the fraudsters, and on October 20th, 2023, in the process of transferring the wire fraudsters away from the park, the Ming family criminal group shot fleeing personnel, killing 4 Chinese fraudsters and injuring 4 others. The task force thoroughly investigated the truth of the “10.20” case as a means to pry open the four major family criminal groups operatingin northern Myanmar. In order to destroy the “four major families” in northern Myanmar, including the Ming family, for more than a year, the police of the task force visited more than 100 prefectures and cities – in more than 20 provinces – to conduct investigations and collect material evidence.

In November 2023, our country’s public security organs publicly offered a reward to Ming Xuechang, Ming Guoping, Ming Julan, and Ming Zhenzhen. Soon after, Ming Guoping, Ming Julan, and Ming Zhenzhen were successfully arrested and handed over to China. After more than a year of difficult evidence collection and investigation, the police handed over as many as 1,110 files, nearly 15,000 documentary and physical evidence materials, and more than 50TB of electronic data. On December 30th, 2024, the Wenzhou Municipal People’s Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province prosecuted Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, and others on suspicion of fraud, intentional homicide, and intentional injury against members of the Ming family criminal group and related criminal group members in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, such as “territorial jurisdiction”, “protective jurisdiction” and “universal jurisdiction”.

From February 14 to 19, 2025, the Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, held a public trial of 23 people, including Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Bi Huijun, Ming Julan, and Wu Hongming, defendants in the Ming Family Criminal Group case. After trial, the court found that the Ming family criminal group carried out criminal activities such as cross-border telecommunications network fraud, intentional homicide, intentional injury, illegal detention, opening casinos, drug trafficking, and organizing prostitution, involving more than 10 billion yuan in gambling fraud, resulting in the death of 14 Chinese citizens and the injurung of 6 Chinese citizens.

On September 29th, 2025, the case was publicly pronounced in the first instance of the Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The court sentenced 11 defendants, including Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong, and Fu Yubin, to death; Yang Zhengxi, Fu Chengzhi and other five defendants were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve; 11 defendants, including Luo Jianzhang and Qiu Zhi, were sentenced to life imprisonment. The 12 defendants, including Bi Huijun and Jiang Ji, were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 24 years to five years, and additional sentences such as fines, confiscation of property, and deportation were sentenced accordingly.

Original title: “11 main criminals are executed today, reviewing the beginning and end of the collapse of the Mingjia criminal group in northern Myanmar”

Column editor-in-chief: Jiang Zhuyun

Text editor: Fu Lu

Author of this article: CCTV News Client

Chinese Language Text:

https://history.sohu.com/a/971991516_121996945

11名主犯今被执行死刑，回顾缅北明家犯罪集团覆灭始末

 2026-01-29 14:42

今天（29日），以明国平、明珍珍等人为首要分子的明家犯罪集团11名罪犯被执行死刑。这个长期盘踞缅北果敢，依托武装力量，大肆对中国境内公民实施电信网络诈骗，残害中国籍涉诈人员性命的犯罪集团彻底覆灭。那么，明家犯罪集团究竟犯下哪些累累罪行，又是如何落入法网的？一起回顾。

在缅北果敢地区，包括明家在内的“四大家族”控制着当地的赌场、矿产、地产等暴利行业和黑灰产业，大肆对我国公民实施犯罪。

明家从2015年底开始，逐渐依靠赌博、电诈生意实现暴富。

在家主明学昌的带领下，逐步发展为以其儿子明国平、女儿明菊兰、孙女明珍珍等为主要成员的明家犯罪集团。

明家犯罪集团通过招揽电诈“金主”，也就是电诈团伙的负责人，陆续设立了卧虎山庄、路易国际、玉祥国际集团等一批产业化、集团化的赌诈园区，合作笼络着一批大小电诈“金主”，高峰时期园区里涉诈人员近万人，大肆对中国公民实施虚假投资理财、刷单返利、冒充公检法、虚假征信等各类电诈犯罪活动。

为了彻底铲除缅北四大家族侵害中国公民的犯罪土壤，经中缅双方多轮会谈磋商，从2023年7月开始，公安部部署开展打击缅北涉我电信网络诈骗犯罪专项行动。

在此期间，明家犯罪集团为保护电诈窝点，继续控制涉诈人员，于2023年10月20日，在转移园区内电诈人员的过程中对逃跑人员进行开枪射击，造成中国籍涉诈人员4人死亡、4人受伤。

专案组将彻查“10.20”案件的真相，作为撬开缅北四大家族犯罪集团的突破口。为了摧毁包括明家在内的缅北“四大家族”，一年多时间里，专案组民警奔赴20多个省份100多个地市进行侦查调查、搜集固定证据。

2023年11月，我国公安机关对明学昌、明国平、明菊兰、明珍珍进行公开悬赏通缉。不久后，明国平、明菊兰、明珍珍3人被成功抓捕并移交中方。

历经了一年多的艰难取证和侦查，警方向检察机关移交的卷宗就多达1110本，书证、物证等证据材料近1.5万份，电子数据超过50TB。

2024年12月30日，浙江省温州市人民检察院依据《中华人民共和国刑法》中“属地管辖”“保护管辖”“普遍管辖”等规定对明家犯罪集团成员及关联犯罪集团成员明国平、明珍珍等人，以涉嫌诈骗罪、故意杀人罪、故意伤害罪等向温州市中级人民法院提起公诉。

2025年2月14日至19日，浙江省温州市中级人民法院对明家犯罪集团案被告人明国平、明珍珍、毕会军、明菊兰、巫鸿明等23人进行一审公开开庭审理。

法院经审理查明，明家犯罪集团实施跨境电信网络诈骗、故意杀人、故意伤害、非法拘禁、开设赌场、贩卖毒品、组织卖淫等犯罪活动，涉赌诈资金百亿余元，造成14名中国公民死亡、6名中国公民受伤。

2025年9月29日，该案在浙江省温州市中级人民法院一审公开宣判。法庭对明国平、明珍珍、周卫昌、巫鸿明、吴森龙、傅雨彬等11名被告人判处死刑；对杨正喜、傅成志等5名被告人判处死刑，缓期二年执行；对罗建章、邱智等11名被告人判处无期徒刑；对毕会军、蒋吉等12名被告人判处二十四年至五年不等有期徒刑，并相应判处罚金、没收财产、驱逐出境等附加刑。

原标题：《11名主犯今被执行死刑，回顾缅北明家犯罪集团覆灭始末》

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